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HYATT GRAND CYPRESS HOTELORLANDO, FLORIDASeated: John and RoseMarie Boniello, Vincenza DiLiberti, Carolyn CianciottaStanding: Bill Zuppa, Antoinette Caporice, Dr. Mark DeNunzio, Dino DiLiberti, Tony CianciottaTHE FLORIDIAN/September 20112 | P a g e
NATIONAL CONVENTION REPORTSubmitted by Dr. Mark DeNunzio, National TrusteeMonday August 8th was the first plenary session. The biggest news of the day was that the Article 110 inquiries into thevote to allow the National President to serve 2 consecutive terms was not needed as the issue was researched andalthough a motion was made to limit the President to one term it was never passed and adopted.The true convention started Tuesday. Acting Grand Lodge President Carolyn Cianciotta gave a wonderful welcomingspeech to the delegates in attendance. Dino DiLiberti came all the way from Tampa to sing the Italian National Anthem tohelp open the convention. These two individuals certainly represented the Grand Lodge of Florida extremely impressively.During the session the minutes of the previous convention were corrected to include that at the 2009 Convention theassembly voted to limit the national conventions starting with the 2013 convention to 5 consecutive days. ActingPresident of PA John Foradora stated that the minutes as presented should at least have every motion made and votedon by the assembly. The Chair agreed and will try to have improved minutes available.Supreme Lodge budget was presented with a recommendation for a $1.00 per year increase for both 2013 and 2014.Much discussion about the effects on Local Lodges and retention of members. Finally a compromise was suggested andan increase of only $.50 per year in 2013 and 2014 was voted on by the Convention and passed by a significant margin.Most notably the delegations from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania voted against the compromise package.There was much discussion both in committee and on the convention floor of Pennsylvania's proposal for the 2013convention to be in Philadelphia. The supporters of the Philadelphia convention made the points that travel for those fromthe Northeast would be easier and also the airport in Philadelphia would be cheaper to fly to than the other site proposed,Bonita Springs, FL. Also, the advantages of being able to walk to attractions in Philadelphia was a plus. The parkingsituation in Philadelphia was a minus because it will cost about $20 a day for parking in Phil. while parking is free at theHyatt in Bonita Springs. The meal plans for both hotels were comparable as were the give backs in the form of free suitesand upgrades. In the end the assembly voted for a Phil convention.Bylaws-There were very few states that submitted bylaw changes for their Grand Lodges. Florida had by far the most. Most ofthe other states bylaws were approved with the exception of those trying to have e-mail used for notification. The Floridabylaws not involving e-mail were all approved. The bylaw regarding distribution of the Floridian using e-mail and web sitewas approved. All the other bylaws that were submitted were disapproved. The National Orator will be working onchanges to the Supreme Bylaws to allow e-mail so I feel that it would be worthwhile to resubmit our e-mail bylaws nextconvention.CSJ meeting was mostly about budget items. The CSJ is an independent arm of OSIA and has its own 501c(3)designation as a registered charitable organization. It receives most of its funding from the Supreme Lodge. There arevery few donations to the CSJ and they do not have a fund raising event. It was suggested that by moving the CSJ backin with the Supreme Lodge would save accounting and administrative costs. This idea will be explored further. Presentlythe CSJ receives $1.50 per member per year to operate. Many of the operating expenses are calculated as being apercentage of the costs paid by the Supreme Lodge for instance rent, office personnel salaries, website, insurance, etc.These expenses leave little for specific CSJ programs. The Chairman of CSJ Santina Hammerle from NY is trying tostrengthen this committee and will be seeking more funds to implement programs. She is also trying to better organizethe Grand Lodges CSJ directors to improve communication and advance the committee programs.The National raffle with tickets being sold for $50 each was a moderate success. Approximately 1100 tickets were sold.The winner was a local lodge from California which received a prize of $9000, somewhat less than was anticipated but afigure that was included on the tickets if a sufficient amount were not sold. There were 10 other $1000 prizes awardedduring the Saturday Marconi Dinner.The Convention delegation approved a membership recruitment program that will offer gift incentives for sponsoring newdues paying members. There will be 3 levels of prizes for recruiting 2, 4, and 6 members. Also for each new member theybring into the Sons of Italy the sponsoring member's name will be entered into a raffle for a trip to Italy. The program isslated to run from Jan 1, 2012 through June 30, 2012. More details will be forthcoming from the National Office.THE FLORIDIAN/September 20113 | P a g e
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